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en-usMedical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine.Researchers to build wearable interface to make prosthetics more comfortableUT Arlington researchers have been awarded a $744,300 grant from the Department of Defense Peer Reviewed Orthapaedic Research Program to create an adaptive interface that fits between a prosthetic and a patient's limb so that the fit and comfort of the prosthetic are improved.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-10-wearable-interface-prosthetics-comfortable.html
Medical researchThu, 09 Oct 2014 10:03:53 EDTnews332067825Researchers claim NIH grant process is 'totally broken'(Medical Xpress)—John Ioannidis, a researcher at Stanford University has, along with graduate student Joshua Nicholson, published a commentary piece in the journal Nature, taking the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to task for maintaining a system that they say rewards conformity while ignoring innovation.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-nih-grant-totally-broken.html
OtherThu, 06 Dec 2012 08:10:01 EDTnews274000897Cancer agency OK'd faulty $11M grant(AP)—Texas' embattled $3 billion cancer-fighting agency approved an $11 million grant to a biomedical company even though the proposal wasn't reviewed.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-cancer-agency-okd-faulty-11m.html
OtherThu, 29 Nov 2012 19:03:30 EDTnews273438192CMU will tap advanced computer methods to help doctors make sense of their patients' DNAScientists at Carnegie Mellon University say advanced computational tools will be the key to a new research project that, if successful, could enable doctors to routinely use information extracted from a patient's DNA to diagnose and guide treatment of diseases.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-cmu-advanced-methods-doctors-patients.html
GeneticsTue, 10 Jan 2012 10:35:24 EDTnews245414109Global Fund for world health halts new programs(AP) -- The world's biggest financier in the fight against three killer diseases says it has run out of money to pay for new grant programs for the next two years - a situation likely to hit poor AIDS patients around the world.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-global-fund-world-health-halts.html
OtherThu, 24 Nov 2011 16:12:16 EDTnews241373521AMP opposes exclusive licensing of NIH proteomics patentThe Association for Molecular Pathology (AMP) opposed the National Institutes of Health (NIH) proposal to exclusively license the subject matter of a cancer-related proteonomics patent application filed by the Agency. AMP's written remarks were submitted to NIH in response to a request for comments in the Federal Register Notice entitled, "Prospective Grant of Exclusive License: The Development of a Companion Diagnostic Kit for Predicting Therapeutic Efficacy of Anti-Cancer Agents." The proposed license grants exclusive worldwide rights to use the relationships between levels of three proteins, PTEN, Akt, and mTOR and cancers of the breast, lung, and kidney. Under the terms of the prospective agreement, the licensor could provide laboratory test services and/or sell test kits.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-amp-opposes-exclusive-nih-proteomics.html
OtherTue, 22 Nov 2011 11:58:29 EDTnews241185497Research finds high cost and randomness in grant funding decisions(PhysOrg.com) -- Which scientific health and medical research projects receive government funding in any given year relies to some extent on 'chance' according to recent research by a Queensland University of Technology (QUT) expert in health economics.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-high-randomness-grant-funding-decisions.html
Medical researchWed, 28 Sep 2011 13:14:57 EDTnews236434481NIH grant for the move toward clinical trials targeting the lysosomal storage disease MPSIIIBInvestigators at Nationwide Children's have received a grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to help move a therapy for MPS IIIB that has been shown effective in mice toward clinical trials in humans.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-nih-grant-clinical-trials-lysosomal.html
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